[Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

[Lodewijk]

I would guess either national press, or a change in how the popular search
engines work?

Are we running & recording certain defaulted random queries from time to
time to compare?

Lodewijk


2013/11/22 Erik Zachte <ezachte at wikimedia.org>

> Hi Strainu,
>
> We noticed and are investigating. It surely looks almost too good to be
> true.
> Any suggestions for an explanation are welcome.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
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> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months
>
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the summary reports per language, I've noticed a linear,
> significant increase in pageviews for many European languages (ro, bg, hu,
> fr) Wikipedias in the last 3 months. This is not happening for Asian
> languages or Russian and is not obvious from the report card.
>
> Has anything changed in the reporting or the visit patterns for these
> Wikipedias? It looks pretty weird to have a 100% increase for Romanian in
> just 3 months [1].
>
> Thanks,
>   Strainu
>
>
> [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryRO.htm
>
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